Dr. Stephen Porges’s FREE Chapter, “Neuroception: Our Body’s Surveillance System”
Excerpted from his best-selling book, Our Polyvagal World
Download the chapter today to discover:
- An evidence-based framework that helps clients understand why bodies act in ways that brains wish they wouldn't
- Why some clients remain resistant despite your best efforts—and what to do to help them make progress
- How the nervous system silently determines whether talk therapy can work—or not
- And much more!
Stephen W. Porges, PhD, is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium. In 1994, he proposed the Polyvagal Theory. This theory links the evolution of the mammalian autonomic nervous system to social behavior, and emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral problems and psychiatric disorders. The theory has reshaped how trauma therapy is understood worldwide. With journalist and filmmaker Seth Porges, his research into the autonomic nervous system has found a wider audience in the book Our Polyvagal World, and has given clinicians a new lens to view the long-lasting effects of trauma.
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